Marquis Teague

Remember Bill Veeck? He launched fireworks to celebrate White Sox home runs, let spectators vote on in-game managerial decisions and once sent a midget to home plate. His legacy lives on, indirectly, in an event coming to Chicago in July.

Jon Mugar channeled Veeck years ago when he asked a friend: "What if we threw down a life-changing sum of money, $50 million, and said: Any basketball team can play for it."

At the time Mugar was a Second City-trained comedy writer in southern California with a trailblazing spirit, borrowing a page from the 1962 autobiography "Veeck as in Wreck".

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